Text / Jiang Lifu
Show in front of us is the president of Guangzhou poetry and painting and calligraphy academy, the famous landscape painter Mr. Xie Dingming entitled "sixty years of travel thousand mountains Xie Dingming Maritime Silk Road series of paintings large exhibition” of new work, this is the author’s the eleventh solo exhibition since 1989 to this day, “hundred miles of the desert river" (38 meters), “the desert sea really admire"(68 meters) long scroll, after a series of great works, a total of 60 pieces. (12 of them were selected as "special stamps of Chinese cultural masters" issued by the post office). The author has always been keen on local landscape painting, from thousands of years of the Song Dynasty "Nanhai No. 1" was inspired which was salvaged in his hometown Yangjiang, he was not shirk hardships, collected folk songs on the way, travel over land and water, visit sites, according to the current landscape and historical data, careful framing, lasted for several years, made the series format, to reproduce the main attractions of the “Maritime Silk Road”.
Xie Dingming | "Ancient Maritime Silk Road -- ancient Penglai Dengzhou port" | 138x68cm | 2011
The history of the maritime Silk Road, the world known for a long time, the text described more than one, but the series of paintings to show the image, this is the first time, Mr. Xie is the first. Painting through ancient and modern, has a strong sense of history and reality. This is the development and extension of the "Mo Yang amorous feelings" series, extending from the hometown Mo Yang to the coastal cities, extending to the maritime Silk Road and reaching the world.
Maritime Silk Road, Guangzhou is one of the port of departure of Asia. In addition to the familiar Whampoa ancient harbor, thirteen lines of scenery, as well as the Yangzhou which has been neglected in the past (by canal and sea). The 5.75 meter long scroll depicting the Yangzhou ancient canal prosperity, which is similar to the "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" genre painting, some people said, the Yuan Dynasty Yangzhou "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" is an important aspect of this exhibition. The theme of this exhibition is outstanding, the momentum is magnificent and the features are distinctive.
Xie Dingming | "Ancient Maritime Silk Road - Quanzhou ancient coast" 68x68cm | Doufang | 2009
The painter’s consistent creative ideas and style development, the combination of inheritance and innovation, the combination of realism and imagination, the integration of the natural landscape and the humanities spirit, the integration of poetry and painting. On the technique, we draw lessons from the folk painting of Yangjiang in our hometown as well as the modern painting techniques. Unlike all previous exhibitions, there are oil paintings besides Chinese paintings. The author is diligent in practice and dares to pursue. Its artistic path is as long and colorful as the Maritime Silk Road. While there is life, there is creation, look forward to continued success of the painter and extraordinary in art circles.
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Jiang Lifu